7 Must-Have Online Business Tools I Use to Grow My Business

2. Jaaxy Keyword Research Tool

• Jaaxy keyword tool is like no other and this is all I need to use for my niche research, keyword research and competition research. It tells you what your rankings are for a specific page or a specific post on your sites. I have used many tools for keyword research including Google Keyword Planner, Long Tail Pro 3, Traffic Travis and a multitude of others.
• Even when I combined the keyword tools above, none of them is as simple to use as Jaaxy is. I need to spend only about 15 minutes a day on Jaaxy to find several low competition, high-value keywords that drive traffic to my sites.
• Jaaxy is one of those things that quickly improves takes your online business to the next level. There are video based tutorials which will teach you how to get the most out of Jaaxy. 

Read About Jaaxy Here - Includes 30 Free Searches

3. Mass Planner 2

• Mass Planner 2 is a social media marketing tool that automates just about any task that would take hours per day to do manually. It includes tools to handle all the major social media networks like Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Google+, Linkedin, Instagram and Tumblr.
• They have added yet another tool to Mass Planner. That is the new tool for email and I've got to check it out a little more before I can report further! Mass Planner has paid for itself at least a hundred times over in the just the first 6 months of using it.
• It has also saved me heaps of time and effort. It's incredibly powerful. I've actually stopped trying to count the visitor increase and the total amount of referrals and commissions it made for me. All on almost complete autopilot.
• There is a free 5-day trial available for anyone who wants to check it out without paying a dime! I love stuff with free trials because they always seem to prove themselves to me.
• I don't like having to pay for something before using it and then finding out I have to chase after a refund and beg for my money back if it sucks. Mass Planner doesn't suck, I'm glad to report. It wouldn't be one of my top recommendations if it did!
• (Last Christmas they gave me a free tool add-on worth $25 just because I contacted them to tell them about a small bug I'd found! hehe!)

MAY 2017 UPDATE

Sadly, Mass Planner 2 was told to close its doors by Instagram in May 2017, to the dismay of many, including myself. There is one tool that is still running, and that's Instamate 2, which will help you to manage your Instagram accounts.

Hootsuite and Buffer are a couple of alternatives to Mass Planner that'll help you with social media scheduling.

4. WPX Web Hosting (formerly Traffic Planet Hosting)

• WPX Web Hosting (used to be called Traffic Planet Hosting) is the best hosting I've ever had the pleasure of using. I've never encountered hosting as good as this. Once I've built my sites at Wealthy Affiliate I sometimes like to transfer the hosting to superfast SSD hosting with WPX Hosting. It is the bees knees and their support rocks.
• They get back to you instantly when you contact them for help. The Longest time I've ever had to wait for a response? 2 Minutes! They are there 24/7 and make HostGator look like an extinct dinosaur. I use WPX for my most cherished sites.

Read My Review of WPX Hosting Here

5. ClickBank Marketplace

• An affiliate marketer's marketplace that lists thousands of different products and they are mostly digital. You must understand before you use Clickbank to find products to promote that just because it is listed at Clickbank it does not mean something is automatically a good product.
• Choose wisely what you're going to promote because your reputation online is at stake. Treat this place like you would treat a supermarket, or better yet, a cash and carry. When you go to the cash and carry (wholesalers) you need to know what it is you're taking off the shelves.
• As with any marketplace, there is going to be both good stuff, and bad stuff. You're to blame if you don't research a product before choosing a product. Keep this in mind when deciding what you should promote on your site and keep your reputation squeaky clean. Your online business doesn't need complaints about stuff that doesn't work. This affiliate marketplace is ideal for beginners.

Read More About Clickbank Marketplace Here

6. Thrive Themes Membership

• Thrive Themes create awesome WordPress themes and plugins that are optimized for conversions.is a plugin I couldn't be without now that I've played with it a while. It's simply fantastic for creating landing pages, squeeze pages, thank you pages and more. I save money because I used to have to outsource the creation of some of these pages and it was getting expensive.
• With Architect, which is Thrive's page builder plugin, I can create all of my own pages in a few minutes and they look so professional. I regret not looking at Thrive Themes a lot earlier than I did. I would have saved a lot of money over a 1 year period where I paid someone else to make pages for me and it took days of waiting for them to come back. Not any more! DIY
• Thrive Leads is a plugin that helps to build a funnel on your website that channels people where you need them to go. Use it to build your email list. Awesome! Love it to bits.

Visit Thrive Themes Here

7. Sumome

• SumoMe is a plugin for WordPress and I must say how useful this is. The free version does everything I need it to do. It's so good that I'm considering paying for it to get full access to the tools available.
• The tools included are an email list builder, heat maps, social sharing buttons, on page analytics,  and much more. Check it out and see what it does for you. The image above shows what is included. It's free forever if you want it to be...that's always nice! 🙂 

I'd really be lost if not for these resources because they save both time and money. They also make life easier and help my websites turn a profit.

I believe my sites would've achieved only 10% of the success they'd had without them. Essential is not a strong enough word to describe the stuff on this list.

They've become a part of the furniture and I'm not leaving them behind - even if I move house.

Read About 10 WordPress Plugins That I Use For Business Here

Thanks for reading and as always, go right ahead and leave any comments below with what you feel are your essential tools. Do you disagree with any of the above tools? Why? Which would you replace?

I'm Jim. Read more about me here.